Several Russia-based family members of people living in Ukraine don’t believe that the Russian military is on the offensive. On the contrary, they believe it라이브 바카라 the Ukrainians who are blowing up buildings in their own country and are using civilians as human shields.
It라이브 바카라 not very uncommon to live in Ukraine and have family members across the border in Russia, but such people are now more divided than ever and that라이브 바카라 not just because of the distance between them. It라이브 바카라 also because of their perception of what's going on바카라 웹사이트between the two countries.
Several Russia-based family members of people living in Ukraine don’t believe that the Russian military is on the offensive. On the contrary, they believe it라이브 바카라 the Ukrainians who are blowing up buildings in their own country and are using civilians as human shields. They sympathise with their family members in Ukraine facing the brunt of the fighting but they find it difficult to believe their stories of Russian aggression.바카라 웹사이트
Several people don’t even realise that a war is going on as the word “war” is not used in the Russian reporting. 바카라 웹사이트
Oleksandra, 25, told BBC from Ukraine라이브 바카라 Kharkiv that her family in Moscow did not believe her even when she sent them videos of Russian attacks. She said, “But even though they worry about me, they still say it probably happens only by accident, that the Russian army would never target civilians. That it's Ukrainians who're killing their own people.”
Oleksandra believes that this is because of the state-controlled media that people consume in Russia.
Viral images and videos of Russian rockets hitting Ukrainian buildings, civilians confronting Russian soldiers, or commoners picking up arms to fight the Russians are nowhere in the Russian broadcasting.바카라 웹사이트
The Russians are not only preventing the coverage of the war but are also peddling their own narrative that has led a large number of people to believe that their바카라 웹사이트government is on the right side of history. For example, when the Russian military took control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, it was reported in Russia that it was an essential act as the Ukrainians could have used the unspent nuclear fuel at the plant to make bombs for use against Russia.
On another occasion, Russia라이브 바카라 Channel One reported about Ukraniains, “They shoot at their own and hide behind civilians, this is how the Ukrainian forces withdraw.”
BBC라이브 바카라 Francis Scarr compared the ongoing misinformation campaign in바카라 웹사이트Russia with the one seen earlier in Syria where the Russian government바카라 웹사이트backed the country라이브 바카라 long-time President Bashar al-Assad.바카라 웹사이트
The Russian media has not just downplayed the invasion of Ukraine but has also justified it just like President Vladimir Putin who called it a “special military operation” for “de-Nazification” of the country. Parallels of the ongoing invasion have also been drawn with the Soviet Union라이브 바카라 efforts against the Nazi Germany in World War 2.바카라 웹사이트
Russian politicians are also being allowed space uncritically. Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin told a channel that the government had no choice as if they would not have launched the “operation”, NATO would have launched one.바카라 웹사이트
“We got in there first, which means we saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” said Volodin.
Russia already ranked 150th in the World Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Their section on Russia notes, “As the major TV channels continue to inundate viewers with propaganda, the climate has become very oppressive for those who question the new patriotic and neo-conservative discourse, or just try to maintain quality journalism.”
The Russian government라이브 바카라 rulings following the invasion of Ukraine have given the Russian media the final blow and have completed the destruction of the country's independent media, according to RSF.
The Russian government has made the publication of what they say “fake바카라 웹사이트news” punishable by up to 15 years in prison and have also made appeals for sanctions on Russia punishable by up to three years of imprisonment. This has made international organisations like BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CBS News, and Canada라이브 바카라 CBC, suspend their operations in Russia.바카라 웹사이트
Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta and business news organisation The Bell have also ceased their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to protect their journalists from prosecution.바카라 웹사이트
The Russian clampdown on the independent press is not just limited to curbs on Russian media and propaganda on state-controlled outlets. The Russians have also specifically targeted journalists in Ukraine with lethal force. A Sky News team was ambushed and attacked last week near Kyiv by pro-Russia바카라 웹사이트fighters. Two members of the team were shot but were saved by their protective vests.바카라 웹사이트
A letter published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from a resident of Russia's St Petersburg suggests these efforts by the Russian government바카라 웹사이트in the information바카라 웹사이트domain are working.바카라 웹사이트The letter noted, “Most people without personal international contacts don’t know what their army is doing. It라이브 바카라 not that they support the war—they don’t even know about it.”
It does not mean that there is no awareness. There have been anti-war protests in Russia and several hundreds of people have been arrested. But that라이브 바카라 not enough.바카라 웹사이트
The letter in the Bulletin noted, “To stop a war you need half the city to come out on the streets at once. You need hundreds of thousands of people. A thousand people—even two, three, five thousand—does not change anything. And half the city will not come out: They don’t even realise that we’re shelling Ukrainian cities.”
The Russian military is pounding Ukraine, pro-Russia fighters have infiltrated deep into the country and are targeting journalists, Putin has given nuclear threats to the world, but the Russian population is largely unaware of what라이브 바카라 going on.바카라 웹사이트
The Russian military advance on Kyiv might have been halted —for now, but there is little halting to Putin라이브 바카라 domestic misinformation campaign.